The tutorial on how to play the game can be
selected at start of the game.

There is a good hint system in the game. The
hints can guide the gamer without the need of a walkthrough.

The main menu is accessed by right mouse click or
the ESC key.

The space bar shows all the active spots in the
screen.

In Win7, the saved game folder is located at
C:\Users\computer name\Saved Games\Shades of Black folder.

During winter, Carol wrote a book about an old case and is now looking for a publisher.
Carol eagerly wants a case because her hall and computer room are being
renovated and has need to get out of the house.

A
new case.

Carol's home:

Look around at the disarray in her living room. Go forward and the turn
left.

Enter the office and see the room that is being renovated. Turn around and
go to the other door.

Bedroom: Enter the bedroom. Take the cell phone
from the side table right of bed. Click on it to read a reminder to contact Stina. A new
location is added to map.

Exit through the door right of the closet.

Mail: See the front door and mailbox slot. Take the
envelope from the mail slot. Open the letter.

Read the rejection letter sent by Albert Edison, Publisher at Magnentus Books.

Turn left from door and check the WC. Exit.

Refrigerator: Turn around to go to the kitchen. Look
around. See a juicer by the sink.

Open the fridge and see a peeler at
bottom right. Take the peeler.

Go
to the front door and exit.

Stina's fruit stand:

Map: See the map. The new location - Stina's fruit
stand is blinking. Go there.

Stina: Talk to Stina. Click on the dialogue. See
the book cover of Carol's The Blue Madonna made by Stina.

Message: After talking to Stina, get a text message from
Albert Edison of Magnentus Books. Click to read the text message.

Albert Edison wants to hire Carol and asks for a meet at Ribling Road 2 -
new location.

Albert Edison's office:

Jump to Edison's office. Talk to Albert Edison. He wants Carol to find a
"real" author - a gifted one - Gerald Black.

Read the blurb for the reprint of the Twisted River Murders. Gerard Black's
wife Dora was murdered in 2009. Gerard is believed to be working on a new book about
his investigations into the murder of his wife.

An
unidentified woman was murdered at Twisted River Park. Pages of Black's book
was stuffed in her mouth and her left arm was cut off. Black disappeared after
that.

Get
Gerard Black's address and keys to his house - new location.

Get information about
Gerald Black.

Gerard
Black's house:

Jump to Gerard Black's house. You are inside the house. Check the right and
left doors (closet and WC).

Living room: Go to the room at right.

Book case: Turn right to the
book case. Examine the note right of the plastic shopping bag at lower
shelf.

Read the poem signed M. The poem mentions a
pattern at the murder site. An ultraviolet light on a birdhouse at the
murder site and a blood red phone
are needed to see the pattern.

Display case: Turn around
and examine the plaid teddy bear.

Slide the left cabinet door below the teddy
bear. Read the
newspaper clipping. It mentions that the murdered woman at Twisted River
Park was found at same spot as one of the victims in Black's book.

Read the letter from the murderer with "high
morals". M wants Gerard to stop him. The first clue is where the latest
body was found.

TV stand: Check the drawer
below the TV. It has 4 numbers that are needed to be pressed to open it.

Kitchen: Go to the kitchen.

Examine the tack board. Look close at Gerard's PR
blurb.

Red cell phone: Turn left to the counter. Look close at the
opened large plastic pack-envelope.

Click the envelope again to see a red cell
phone. It has 6 icons. We now located one of the items needed for the
pattern.

Drawer: Open the drawer
below the envelope. Examine the empty plastic bottle. It has an X
mark.

Note: Turn around and look
close at the laptop on the table.

Read the note from Rick about the text Gerard
wrote for one of his odd jobs at the nature park.

Find pattern at murder site.

Gazebo -
Murder site:

Location of murder site: Go to Albert Edison's office.
The body with one arm gone was found in a gazebo at Twisted River Park - new
location.

Gazebo: Jump to Gazebo on the map. Follow the path and
look around. Go 5 clicks forward; turn left to the gazebo.

Look around. Take the fishing line from the railing.

Information stand: Go back to the path. Go left and
see information stands at side of the path.

Turn right and examine the information stand at right. There's a note under
white dirt. It mentions a ...red device.

Take and examine the credit card case at right bench. See Gerard
Black's cards. Click at bottom card to expose a note with numbers - 3648.

Birdhouse: Continue to the left. Look close at
birdhouse attached to the tree at left 2 clicks away from cave rest area.

Continue on the path and exit.

Gerard
Black's house:

TV
stand: Go back to Gerard's house and living room.

Look close and press the number from Gerard's card case on the drawer of the
TV stand - 3648.

Read the letter from Max Esther about Eco Lodge Village at Venum Forest -
new location. Exit.

Track Gerard and locate items to get pattern.

Eco
Lodges:

Go
to the Eco Lodges. Look around. Check the eco lodges and other buildings on
both sides of the path. Don't forget to close doors.

Firewood shack: Enter the red building at right and
see stored firewood inside. Also beer bottles.

See
a file on the shelf that can be picked up but not taken. We might need it
later.

Last eco lodge: Enter the eco lodge left and behind
the firewood shack.

Pick up a postcard from the floor at right. Turn it to learn about the
Loaner's Lodge at Rimbaud forest - new location. Exit the area.

The
Loaner's Lodge:

Loaner's Lodge: Look around the area. Look close at
the lodge after passing the machinery at left of path.

Use
the peeler from Carol's fridge to unscrew the door lock.

Open the zipped bag. Take the portable ultraviolet lamp.

Continue on at the path. Check the pile of carrots and potatoes at left; as
well as ?seeds.

Red open hut: Across the path from the carrots is an open
hut. Go there.

Look close at the ground left of hut. See pink toilet paper and wet wipes.
Take a wet wipe. Exit the area.

Gazebo -
Murder site:

Go
to Gazebo now that the ultraviolet lamp and wet wipes are taken.

Dirty information stand: Go forward to the information
stand with the note cover by white dirt pass the Gazebo.

Use
the wet wipe from Rimbaud forest on the dirt on the glass.

Read the clue: Lastly, tap the apple twice to login on
the red device.

Birdhouse: Go to the birdhouse pass the cave rest
area.

Use
the ultraviolet lamp on the wood and see a hand print (like the icon on red
phone). Exit area.

Follow directions obtained:

Go
back to Gerard's house. Look close at the red phone in the plastic package
on the kitchen counter.

Follow the clues: click on hand icon once and click on apple icon twice.

Looks like Gerard accessed this phone already.

Click again to read M's message. M knows that Gerard is hiding from him and
that he traced Gerard to the eco lodge.

Locate and check Gerard's next hiding place.

Mail: Look at Gerard's mailbox slot on the exit door.

Read the invoice from Tree House Central for 5 nights stay at Woodpecker
Tree House.

The Woodpecker Hotel: Use the cell phone and call Tree
House Central - new location.

Go
to the Woodpecker Hotel. Go forward and look up at the tree house. Look
close at the rope hanging below the tree house. How do you get up there?

Jonas: Walk away from the tree house and get a text
message from Jonas. He is at Reidler's second hand bookshop - new location.

Go
there - Jonas. Talk to Jonas. He has been pruning at the Darwin Forest.
Learn how to get up a tree house. You sit on a websling attached to a rope
and pull yourself up.

Achmud: Get a call from Tree House Central. Carol can
look at the tree house.

The
Woodpecker Hotel:

Go
back to the treehouse. Click on the web sling and lift up to the tree
house.

White box: Go around the corner of the balcony. Open
the white box on the floor.

Read about the Sun Cannon in Adeleine - new location.

A
new clue is written on the back. There's a message in a hollow stump beside
the Sun Cannon.

Room: Enter through door at left. Look around.

Turn left and check the window and shelf. There's an empty long matches box
on the shelf.

Take the paint brush in the glass on the window shelf.

Turn right and look out the large picture window above the bed. The
nest is empty.

Overhead shelf: Turn right of bed. Look close at shelf
close to ceiling. There's a can of gas cartridge.

Take and read the wrinkled paper on top shelf - just apply the
contents of the bottle I sent you.

Look inside the wicker basket. Take the binoculars.

Read Gerard's diary with a flower icon on cover. He hid here after the eco
lodge but he was found again. Someone shot an arrow.

Sleep: Carol decided to stay the night here. Sleep on
the bed. Hear a strange sound.

Turn left outside and see an arrow with a message - stop trying or end up dying.

Carol went back home. Go to bedroom and sleep.

Go
back to tree house hotel the next day.

Tree lamp: Look close at the tree lamp beside the
chair at balcony. It has 5 colored "teardrop branches".

Bathroom: Open the red door right of the overhead
shelf. See a portable toilet.

Exit the tree house by opening the trap door on floor at end of balcony.

Follow clue sent to Gerard at tree house.

Sun
Cannon:

Stump: Go to Sun Cannon. Go forward until the tower.
The tower has a lock.

Turn around, forward and left. Go down the steps once. Turn left and see a
hollow tree stump.

Look inside the stump to get a wallet. The key to the tower is in a mooring
bollard at the jetty.

Look at the sun cannon trading card. Read the back to learn about the sun
cannon.

Jetty: Continue down the steps and left to another set
of steps. Go forward once and right to the jetty.

Take the key inside the right bollard.

Tower: Go back to the tower and use the key on the
lock. Look around the tower.

Open and close the window. Look at the postcard on the shelf.

Paper: Turn right to see work area with sealed black
windows.

Take the light green paper tucked under the top shelf.

Read the poem on how to get the letters of the murderer's name. The
clues are in Darwin Forest.

Box with letter puzzle: Open the black-red box at
bottom shelf.

See
a tablet. Click on red button at right to see letters. We need to find the
letters to press on this puzzle.

Exit the area.

Find the letters to form M's name.

Wildlife Trail in Darwin Forest:

Jonas: Remember Jonas said he worked tree trimming at
Darwin Forest. Go to Jonas.
Learn about Wildfire Trail - new location.

Wildlife Trail: Go to Wildlife trail. Turn right and
read the info on the stand written by Gerard Black. The trail is marked with
yellow line and each station has yellow rock.

Review the poem from the sun cannon.

Grab the first one very near the ugly, loathsome, filthy deer.

Go
forward and then right at the crossroad.

Look close at the #5 information stand. It has info about the deer.

Go
to the wood deer on the field behind the stand.

Turn left while facing the deer. Look close at pipe hidden by tall grass.
See an M.

The second letter is discovered on a dirty manhole cover.

Go
back to the trail path. Go forward once. Turn left and see a covered
manhole.

An
O is on the cement cover.

After that we should explore the back of the disgusting boar.

Continue on the path. Go forward twice. Read the info about the wild boar.

Go
close to the wood boar at the back of the stand. Go behind the boar and then turn
around.

See
the letter R.

The next one that we have in stock is printed on a yellow rock.

Go
back to the path. Go forward once and turn right. Look close at the yellow
rock beside the Bark Beetle info stand.

See
a letter T.

And lastly, look across your shoulder by the beast near the boulder.

Continue on the path and see a large boulder ahead. Across the boulder is
the info stand of the moose.

Go
close to the wood moose at the forest. Turn right. Take the paper tucked on the
tree trunk of the tree at right.

Get
a letter Y.

Continue on the path until the exit.

Investigate the Dora's murder scene.

Clues at Dora's murder site:

Letter puzzle in Sun Cannon: Go back to Sun Cannon.
Enter the tower.

Look close at the box at lower shelf. Turn the tablet on by pressing the red
button.

Click on the letters of the murderer's name - MORTY.

5 Error puzzles: Find the difference between the
pictures shown. Click the errors on the right picture.

See
a green flame icon and blue circle with note: Been to your wife's murder
scene lately?

Edison: Go back to Edison and talk to him about
Black's wife Dora.
Learn that Dora was killed by the Bowl Pits - new location.

Bowl Pits: Go forward to the rock hill.

See
the metal flame at top of rock hill. There are 2 green circles and 3 red
ones.

Turn left and look close at the metal ring. There are several red circles
with 3 blue ones.

Sun cannon tablet puzzle: Go back to the Sun Cannon
tower. Look close at the tablet puzzle.

Click on the flame icon 2 times and click on the circle icon 3 times.

Clue: The next clue states that a map was sent to
Gerard. An object is needed to go forward. The object is placed near where
the murdered woman's arm was hidden.

Learn Gerard's involvement.

Find
Gerard's childhood home.

Mistress Allegra: Get a text message from Edison. A
woman called Edison looking for Gerard.

Use
the cell phone in inventory and call the woman. Listen to a recording of
Mistress Allegra Dungeon. Get a new location.

Go
to Mistress Allegra. Ring the doorbell. Well...

Learn about her weird customer. She was handcuffed and left to die at Gerard
Black's childhood house. The customer left behind something. She will give
Carol that something but wants her handcuffs back.

Edison: Go back to Edison and talk to him about
Gerard's childhood home.

The
house with a chimney is SW of an observation tower close to Fiskeby station
- new location.

We
already have taken the binoculars from the tree house wicker basket.

Observation tower: Go forward to the water and then
turn left. Climb up to the very top of the tower.
Carol doesn't know where SW is.

Exit the tower. Get
a text message from Edison about Black's office (new location) and trash at
basement.

Gerard Black's office: Look around the office.

Open the small table-filing cabinet and take the compass. Read the letter from
Johannes B about Black's dumping his military tag in the loo when Black left
his childhood home.

Turn left and take the magnet from the white board on the wall.

Turn around and try to open the drawer on the cabinet at opposite wall. It
is locked.

Exit the office, go left and go through the door. Go down to the basement.

Basement trash:

Once down, turn left and take papers
from the trash bag.

Torn papers: Put
together the pieces of paper to form a picture.

Left click-hold to move the pieces and right
click-tap to rotate them.

Some pieces need to be rotated several times
before getting in correct position to be joined.

Other items: Go forward and
turn left. Take the pull rod propped on the back
wall. Exit the building.

Observation tower: Go forward to the water and then
turn left. Climb up to the very top of the tower.

Automatically see the compass from Gerard's office.

Turn left to face SW. Use the binoculars taken from tree house at center of
screen. Once the active icon is seen - click - new location.

Pull back and leave the area.

Explore Gerard's childhood home:

Go
forward twice and then turn left. Enter the ruins of a house.

Left room, main floor: Enter the room at left.

See
a framed area by doorway. A picture must have been displayed.

Examine the stove at left. Open the grate.

Left room back of house, main floor: Go to the next
room via the doorway left of stove.

Examine the pot on floor left of doorway to front of house. See
a key glued to the pot.

Hallway behind the stairs: Exit to hallway.
Through the window, see a red barn
at back of house.

Right room back of house, main floor: Go to next room.
Look around.

Right room front of house, main floor: Examine the stove.
Take a long match from stove.

Stairs: Exit to front hallway and climb the stairs to
second floor.

Left room, back of house, top floor: Enter the room at
left.

Turn left and look close at wall. Take the clamps hanging from wall
socket.

Take the handcuff by pipe on floor.

Hallway top floor: Exit to hallway at back of house.

Right room back of house, top floor: Go to next room.
Look around.

See
broken tiles on floor by doorway. Take metal bar left of hallway
doorway.

Right room front of house, top floor: Turn to window.

Look close and read the blue notebook on floor. Read Morty's note about
Black hiding in the Sala Silver Mine hotel suite - new location.

Left room front of house, top floor: See
duct tape on
shelf.

A
carved wood design is on the floor by wall.

Go
to hallway, go left and down the stairs.

Explore the red barn:

Exit the house, go left twice and forward to red barn.

First door right: Look at shelves of cabinet.
Take tool from bottom shelf.

Take the knife from top left drawer. The top right drawer is locked.

Second from right door: The door is jammed.

Use
the metal bar taken from the second floor room of the house on the jammed
door.
Take the ski pole.

Second door from left: See a box that needs 4 more numbers
at the bottom to unlock.

First door at left: Open the door of the outhouse-loo. Open
the lid and see a metal object down there. Close lid.

In
inventory combine the clamps taken from second floor of house and the magnet from
Gerard's office.

Look down the hole. Use the clamps with magnet on the metal object down
there.

Gerard's dogtag: Get
Gerard's dog tag as mentioned in the letter in Gerard's office. It is rusty.
The numbers is similar to the box next door.

Glued key: Go back to the house. Go to the left room back
of house, first floor.

Use
the tool from the barn on the glued key in the pot. Get key. Go back
to the barn.

First door right: Use the key on the right drawer.
Take the steel wool.